Dave, I regret to hear of another mainframe shutting down. It's a shame many companies do not realize exactly what they are doing until it is too late. I don't know about WSU, but the companies I've been involved with who migrated off of IBM mainframes were surprised to find how much it cost to "replace" the horsepower of a mainframe.
On a spreadsheet, mainframes look ugly in cost, both iron and software. In actuality, the power produced by that iron and software FAR outperforms any other platform. My most recent shop (that migrated) thought they could replace a z10 with a quad-core Intel system, or so new management said. 100+ quad-core systems later and 100+ software licenses and they still could not meet the published response times the company guaranteed to users. Of course, they were too far down the road to back out at that point, but the migration to a "cheaper platform" ended up costing them about $1.2M/yr more than the mainframe and software licenses. I was quite pleased to see the manager who thought this was such a great idea be fired after completion of the project when the true costs, hardware, software, and response began coming in. JR On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 2:11 PM Gibney, Dave <gib...@wsu.edu> wrote: > I wish this wasn't true, but we continue to move towards shutting down > or z/OS systems. Last night I shutdown VPS and DRS from Levi, Ray and > Shoup. I wish to thank LRS for the one month license extension they granted > us at no charge. Our employees did get W2 forms :) > I also shut down our session manager, Netpass from BIS. Bis also > granted us a one month, no charge extension. > I was very please by the support we received from both companies over > the last more than 30 years. > > Dave Gibney > Information Technology Services > Washington State University > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
